The Semi Finals start around 5pm UK time, with the remaining players vying for the best slice of the $250,000 prize pool on offer.

Blizzard talked more about the impact some of the decks have had during the conquest format, including the performance of Freeze Mage.

Designer Mike Donais told the Express Online: “There’s been a lot of Freeze Mage at this tournament, more so than you’ve seen over the last few months on the ladder.

“I think that’s something that these players are just really good at, we’ve pretty much seen control Priest get trashed by Freeze Mage.

“Freeze Mage can do third damage in one turn, some of the Priests are too slow, especially Arena Priest, who didn’t have enough pressure.

“The Dragon Priest sometimes, they can get enough pressure but definitely Freeze Mage has been one of the stories of the tournament.”

Designer Matt Place joked: “Yeah 30 health is not enough, if only Priest could go to 40!”

For the past three days 16 of the world’s best Hearthstone players have been competing for a share and also for the important tickets to the world championships in early 2018.

ShtanUdachi (Europe), SamuelTsao (Asia Pacific), Fr0zen (Americas), and DocPwn (Americas) have secured their positions at the World Championship, but they still need to prove their merit in the HCT Winter Championship Semifinals and Finals.

Hearthstone Winter Championship 2017
Tue, March 21, 2017

Hearthstone Winter Championship 2017 in The Bahamas.

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Players have had to battle through four groups of four players (one from each region) to compete in a dual-tournament format until only eight remain, at which point the competition shift to the single-elimination bracket.

All matches will be played in a conquest format with a ban, including the final match-up later today.

The UK’s only representative in the tournament, Greensheep, was eliminated during the group stage, losing out to SamuelTsao.

“Think I played well, drew dead in the favourable match ups ultimately lost me the series. Feel really sad right now not being able to re-qualify,” he told fans.

“Not going to give up, going to keep trying to qualify for worlds for this year at least.”